In ccordance with the provisions of the RTE Act, the Government of India started 352 KGBVs in Residential mode upto Upper Primary Level with a view to enhance access and impart quality education to the girls of disadvantaged groups, predominantly belonging to SC, ST, OBC and Minorities of difficult areas and who are Out of School / Urban Deprived / Single Parent Girl Children. Subsequently, classes were extended up to X class by State Government, so as to arrest drop out of Girl Children after VIII class

GBVs, in 18 schools the medium of instruction in English wa commenced from VI to X classes enrolled with Minority Girl Children in the year 2007- 08 and the same is being continued. The balance of 334 KGBVs are impartingeducation in Telugu Medium. The 2464 teachers were engaged in KGBVs @ of 7 teachers, ie., CRTs (Contract Residential Teachers) positioned in each of the KGBVs for all the subjects ie., Telugu / Urdu, English, Hindi, Mathematics, Physical Science, Bio-Science and Social Studies. The CRTs employed in these institutions belong to Telugu Medium and did not have any exposure to English Medium. However, on their own interest and persuasion by higher officers, they learnt and practiced teaching the ubjects in English

Further,
Government observed and noticed that girl children studying in KGBVs
should be imparted with communication skills in English Language and
felt that these girl children need to be equipped with necessary
skills in English so as to enable them to compete with their peers in
their future academic pursuits.

Accordingly,
Keeping in view of majority opinions, the State Project Director,
Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, A.P., Hyderabad vide reference read above, has
requested the Government for conversion of all KGBVs into English
medium schools.

After
careful examination of the matter, Government hereby accord
permission to the State Project Director, Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, A.P.,
Hyderabad to convert all the 334 KGBVs as English Medium KGBVs from
6th
to 8th
classes in the State of Andhra Pradesh from the academic year 2015-16
with the following action plans: